VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-15108
spice-vdagent up to and including 0.17.0 does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell, allowing local attacker with access to the session the agent runs in to inject arbitrary commands to be executed.
HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.42%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.42%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
spice-vdagent up to and including 0.17.0 does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell, allowing local attacker with access to the session the agent runs in to inject arbitrary commands to be executed.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.42% probability · 35th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Affected
- spice-space/spice-vdagent · debian/debian linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/commit/?id=8ba174816d245757e743e636df357910e1d5eb61Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00012.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-09Third Party Advisory
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/commit/?id=8ba174816d245757e743e636df357910e1d5eb61Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00012.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-09Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.